Well they say that pride goes before a fall.

I was feeling quite pleased with myself having managed to move the fold in the thin material without it creasing so I went ahead and soldered the first side on. Not having learned my lesson from a similar experience when I built the Class 5A a few years ago I tinned all the bit of the inner cage and the sides and lower section of the curves of the bulkheads.

Then using the RSU I spot tacked the side in place but struggled to get it to stay in place and ended up being a bit heavy handed which resulted in a number of creases.

Now they do actually look a bit prototypical in that I have seen lots of photos of tender with seams/panels and creases and dents visible at certain angles but it’s not what we tend to model. My other question mark besides can I live with it is that during my modelling period this tender would be relatively new and I am not sure that the premise of a wartime Friday afternoon at Swindon is enough of an excuse to leave it be.

Not the easiest things in the world to take photos of so in the end I squirted a bit of primer at it to get a better view of what it might look like after paint.